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YMCA Youth Leadership Development Program

The Youth Leadership Development (YLD) Program gives youth ages 10-18 a chance to grow as individuals and learn what it means to be a leader in their community. Youth explore relevant issues in today’s society in a safe and fun environment while building positive relationships and preparing for their future. This program, hosted by the YMCA, is held at the SFU Surrey-TD CEC once per week on Thursday evenings and includes SFU student volunteers as youth leaders.

A sample schedule is as follows:

6:30pm

Check In question

Useless fact of the day

Relevant current event

7:00pm

Activity, game, or activity

Discussion of activity, game, or activity

7:30pm

Break

7:45pm

Activity game, activity, discussion

8:20pm

Debrief the evening

Announcements

The workshops will be delivered by YMCA staff/volunteers and SFU volunteers at the SFU CEC located at the City Centre Library (10350 University Drive, Surrey BC) in room 401 from 6:30pm-8:30pm every Thursday starting in September and running until June.